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Using OpenAI Without a Subscription Gets You Third-Tier Results

Using OpenAI Without a Subscription Gets You Third-Tier Results

Two thoughts. One — anyone still using OpenAI without a subscription is getting third-tier AI results. GPT-4 has been reserved for paying ChatGPT Plus users…

Can AI Beat the Quants at Sentiment Analysis

Can AI Beat the Quants at Sentiment Analysis

The quants can't digest the documents released as fast as an AI can. They'd be crazy not to be working on an AI solution right now — and the biggest name in…

Why AI Chatbots Still Can't Close a Sale

Why AI Chatbots Still Can't Close a Sale

I've been working with a fintech and sales group on harnessing AI chatbots to guide clients and customers through a process. What keeps coming up is that, much…

Comparing Vector Database Options

Comparing Vector Database Options

I've been hearing a bit about Weaviate, and it has me wondering whether anyone has seen a comparison chart of the vector database options. These databases…

Two AIs Can Now Work Together

Two AIs Can Now Work Together

I'm taking a moment to digest all of last week's news. With function calling now in the OpenAI API, and something similar available at Hugging Face, anyone who…

An entire C-suite of AIs

An entire C-suite of AIs

Multi-LLM agentic platforms — where multiple AIs basically collaborate with each other — are the next thing worth building. If you're building one, there's a…

GPT-4 Just Got Function Calling

GPT-4 Just Got Function Calling

Just got this from OpenAI: gpt-4-0613 is now available, and it adds a new capability — function calling. You describe your functions in the prompt, and the…

A Patent for AI Content That Reacts to You

A Patent for AI Content That Reacts to You

I've got a cool new patent pending. The idea behind it goes like this. I think the world will have AI making movies, games, music and educational material on…

The Intermediate Observer Layer

The Intermediate Observer Layer

I'm working on a project to get GPT to work with other tools — update Salesforce, say, or summon a human into the chat. The trouble is that a chat AI can't do…

The programming prompt is everything

The programming prompt is everything

The programming prompt is everything. Everything else in the project is plumbing by comparison. Where the project stands: currently it works only with PDFs…

How to make an AI-generated QR code

How to make an AI-generated QR code

To make an AI-generated QR code, generate the plain QR code first. Then submit it to Stable Diffusion running ControlNet, and what comes back is an image that…

We Built a PDF-to-AI Engine

We Built a PDF-to-AI Engine

A small group of us has been working to create an AI Generation Engine, and someone recently took it over the line and gave it a user interface. The engine…